Adrian Johnston
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first heard Jan 2020
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a deterministic fashion, you know, runs the show of our reality.
And, you know, Taylor says, yes, Hegel has that as his metaphysics.
That's clearly intellectually bankrupt at this point.
We can throw that out.
But, you know, there still are these aspects of Hegel well worth saving.
And for Taylor, those would be, you know, the sides of Hegel that involve drawing our attention, especially to, you know, historical and social dimensions of
and making, you know, the social and historical features of ourselves central to philosophy itself.
And indeed, I mean, on one level, of course, Taylor is right that Hegel's way of integrating historical and social dimensions into his philosophy is an extremely important, innovative, valuable feature of his work, starting with texts like the 1807 Phenomenology.
But at the same time, I think Hegel does have a metaphysics.
It's not the one that Taylor rejects.
But what's happened after Taylor is that a number of more analytically trained historians of philosophy who've decided to wrestle with Hegel, such as Robert Pippin, what they've done is, in some cases, I think they've gone so far in certain instances as to say,
Well, where we disagree with Taylor is that Hegel doesn't actually have a metaphysics.
He doesn't have the one that Taylor accuses him of, but he also doesn't pursue metaphysics in a more recognizable, traditional, pre-Kantian fashion at all.
And Pippin, for instance, wants to say, no, I mean, Hegel is basically a good Kantian.
and he thinks any attempt to develop the sorts of metaphysics that Kant critiqued in things like his critique of pure reason, that he essentially accepts those epistemological strictures and just seeks to more richly elaborate aspects of Kant's transcendental idealism.
I think that's wrong too, but that's something that Pippin has been a main advocate of.
And in terms of continuing with Taylor's emphasis on
social, historical, also linguistic dimensions.
Pippin's ally, the analytic neo-Hegelian at Pittsburgh, Robert Brandom, you know, continues more in that sort of Taylor-esque vein in terms of readings of Hegel.
Now, you know, in terms of distilling out the essence of deflationary Hegelianism, before I do that, I should say, just as a side, you know, right now,
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